The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-09-08
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THURSDAY, SEPT. s, 1887.
OUR PARIS LETTER.
PANS, Auoust 3rd

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per day, do not supply two "long
felt wants" Organs for the DWELL
ing and Statue running up interests.
Backed by prizes of oranges and
oysters the bait with which Villemes-
SAINT, the mercies shop assistant of
Blois started the now paying Figaro
or with premiums of foils and hair
trigger pistols, the proposed Mont
teurs would not fail to be supported
The immortal Watts says: it is
shameful sight, when children of
one family, fall out, and chide, and
fight. That appears TO be the most
prominent event here; It's true, it
is an old failing, and that prince of
War Correspondents-Julius Caesar
comments upon the blemish in his
Gallo campaigns.
1t is because other peoples have
cast out the duel vice, that they are
peculiarly fitted to beg the French
to consider their ways, as regards
the fashion of duelling, and be wise.
1t seems eulogical, that the best
way of convincing an adversary of
his error is by blowing out his
brains or running him through the
body-for these accidents may
sometimes occur. When an an
tagonist is being cornered by facts
and reasons, he eXplodes into Bill
ingstate; provokes a challenge, and
the meet ends a troublesome dis
cussion. Messrs. Clemencean and
de Cassagnac have recently amend
ed that eccentric Code of Honor, by
first calling on their would-be foe
men, the Baron de Hickey of Cali
fornia, for the United States have
so many citizens with handles to
their names as to justify the APP
pointments of an Ulster King of
Arms, and the Israelitish Deputy
Laur, respectively, to first prove
their calumnies.
Public opinion is devoting extra
interest to the Boulanger-Ferry
duel; many would wish its model
to be that between Tom Moore and
Jeffrey, when the pistols were lead
less. The ex-War Minister may be
viewed as politically dead; Deputy
Laur's provincial letters, inspired
by Boulanger himself, have finished
him. AS usual the people who
pinned their faith in the General,
are now wrath at.the unheroic revela-
lions of his self-dissection. lie is
clearly down among the dead public
men; he himself has largely con-
tributed to wing the shafts that now
culver in his reputation. The tide
in quitting Boulanger, is in full flood
for his antagonist; after three years
of resting in the shade, the public is
inclined to chant "C'est Jules Ferry
quill nous fault" He is en- able
man, the first on the list of practical
ministers, despite his advocating too
great a glory-programme for lou
kin, and for one point in which he
has paid the penalty-it failed. He
has now taken his stand, without
any qualification, against extreme
and violent politician; a few years
ago at Havre, he broke a first lance
against them. lie now steps to the Z,
front, and heads the reaction which
has set in against
extreme doctrines, and that blind
and naked ignorance which
HDelivers brawling judgments, I'M
abashed,
On all things all day long"
Henri Martin, has been honored
with q statue in his native town of
and which has just
been inaugurated by that indefatig-
able orator and every ones friend,
Minister Spuller-the Fidus Achates
of Gambetta. Martin is only four
years dead, and has merited a sta
tue better than many whom mania
or fashion, has SO honored. He
deserves to be signalled from the
crowd, not exactly as a litterateur,
but as q model Of blameless, harm
less and fraternal public life. For
the republican party, he was a coun-
sellor rather than q combatant,
second Grevy in word. 1t Is now
know that five years ago when NJ.
Greyy was seriously ill, and Gam
beta upbraided with ambitionlng
dead mems shoes, the ex-dictator
had quietly made the necessary ar
engagements for preparing Martin to
the expected vacancy-a circum-
stance Martin never knew.
II. Martin had for his country, an
idolatry. AS he loved much, so
much to him will be forgiven. He
maintained, that France was charged
with the role of leading progressive
by the hand, &C. lie
was an indefatigable Dryasdust:
for half century he worked like a
lay Benedctive at his"Iistory of
nce"-commenced originally as
m order from publisher, after
labbling in general literature. He
lad hobby to demonstrate, the
Messiah Mission of the Gauls; but
he two volumes of his history on
his subject have collapsed, in pre-
enoe of the discoveries of modern
cience. Martin was not histor
ian of the first rank he had neither
he philosophical depth of Guigot,
he diplomatic elegance of Mignet,
he military dash and raciness of
Thiers. the IMAGINATION of Thierry